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AbstractModesty is a common theme in the Abrahamic traditions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Although modesty norms are largely based in religious scripture, the form in which they play out is largely shaped by cultural norms and social factors. This essay explores how Muslim women in North America negotiate modesty norms by exploring cross‐cultural research on veiling, highlighting the differences and similarities these women share with their Christian and Jewish counterparts. Research suggests that Muslim women's modesty norms are contingent on culture, socioeconomic status, geopolitical factors, race and religiosity.

This bookexamines the use of everyday items such as food, clothing, and social media accounts to offer sociological and intersectional analyses of how religion, race, politics, class, and gender shape, define, and reinforce consumption practices of Muslim American women.

Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women